Dennis Miller Hits the Stump for...Sharron Angle?

That comedian Dennis Miller would headline a fundraiser for a Republican
is not news. The former Weekend Update anchor's politics--always
conservative--have moved hard to the right in recent years. That the
Republican is Nevada senate candidate Sharron
Angle does comes as a surprise, considering Miller's
less-than-flattering appraisal of the Tea Party ("Norman
Rockwell hoi polloi") and Glenn
Beck ("[He] makes Howard Beale look like John Wayne").

Miller's
career has been built on going against the grain, but we wonder whether
relocating to Alaska and masterminding Lisa Murkowski's write-in
campaign would have been the more Miller-esque maneuver in this
political climate.

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Ray Gustini is the author of Lucky Town, a forthcoming book about sports in Washington, D.C. He is a former staff writer for The Atlantic Wire.